Mary W. Ward Holst

Mary was the sister of the former Chief of Police Badenoch. The grief at the funeral from the little frame church at Congress street and 42nd avenue was terrible. Inside lay the bodies of Mary A. Holst and her three children; Allan, age 13, Gertrude, age 10 and Amy aged 8 yrs. They perished in the Iroquois Theatre disaster. They were in the ill-fated second balcony of the theater and met death trying to reach the fire escape. Of the family, only the father and a 6 month old son survived.